whd would engage to improve the other half. 

 They would ftill be great gainers ; for one 

 acre properly improved would be equal in 

 value to ten in its natural ilate. 



Thefe obfervations evidently prove that 

 the nation in general is eflentially injured, if 

 any man has more land in his pofleflion than 

 he can either labour properly himfelf, or get 

 others to improve. 



As a proof of the probability that agricul- 

 ture might receive confiderable improvement, 

 if the above plan of villages were adopted, 

 by the experiments of the feuars, I fhall add 

 the following extract from Mr Marlhall. The 

 practice of dibbling, an improvement of con- 

 lidenible importance in hufbandry, appears 

 to have been invented by a cottager. I think, 

 indeed, the Norfolk fcheme is fomewhat de- 

 fe&ive : But of this I fliall fpeak in a future 

 page. 



P. 35. " Minute 23. September 12. Mr 

 " William Barnard of Bradfield,. who was 

 " born (and refided until about three years 

 " go) at Great Ellingham, near Attleborough, 

 " gives the following account of the rife and 

 " pra<5tice of the dibbling of wheat. 



The dibbling of peafe, he fays, has been 



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